Category: Security
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ELK 5: Setting up a Grok filter for IIS Logs
In Pt. 3 of my setting up ELK 5 on Ubuntu 16.04 series, I showed how easy it was to ship IIS logs from a Windows Server 2012 R2 using Filebeat. One thing you may have noticed with that configuration is that the logs aren’t parsed out by Logstash, each line from the IIS log…
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ELK 5 on Ubuntu 16.04
In this series of posts I am going to cover everything needed to get Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) up and running on Ubuntu 16.04. In the videos I use the desktop version of Ubuntu, but the process should be the same on the server version. In addition to the ELK stack I will also…
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ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 3 – Installing and Configuring Beats Agents on Windows Clients
In the previous two posts I went over everything from installing Ubuntu to getting the ELK stack setup and ingesting logs from itself. Now in this final post in the series I am going to cover collecting Windows Event and IIS logs from remote Windows clients. Here is the quick run down of exactly what…
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ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 2 – Installing and Configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana & Nginx
In part one of this series, I went over the basics of installing and configuring Ubuntu 16.04. Now in this part, I am going to take that same VM and go over everything needed to create a functional ELK stack on a single server. By the end of this post the ELK stack will be…
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ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 1 – Installing and Configuring Ubuntu 16.04
In this post I am going to cover the steps needed to install and configure Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop as the base operating system for what is going to become the ELK Stack server. My intention with this first post is to help people running the ELK services on top of Windows be a little more…
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